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Music ... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.
— Winston Churchill
You can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in ...
— John Geddes
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
— Andrew Solomon
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The human heartIs unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always. — Rumer Godden
Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind.
— Maggie Stiefvater
It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
You can't know people, only their names.
— Marty Rubin
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
— David Nicholls
It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.
— Romina Russell
How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.
— Sy Safransky
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
— W. Edwards Deming
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
— Linda Barnes
The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
— W. Edwards Deming
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
— Ambrose Bierce
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
— Pete Hamill
If you sit on the bank of a river, you see only a small part of its surface. And yet, the water before your eyes is proof of unknowable depths.
— Anita Diamant
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
— W. Edwards Deming
While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.
— Barack Obama
All the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction
— Kate Constable
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
— H.L. Mencken
Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.
— Horatio Clare
And there's no figuring out the unknowable. And there's some kind of oxymoron in that that's more moron than anything else.
— Sarah Mussi
The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time
— Kevin Flynn
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
— Nelly Mazloum
Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.
— Richard Bach
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
— Isaac Asimov
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
— John Berger
Something was comforting about strangers - it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
— Megan Boyle
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
— Andrew Carnegie
Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I'm certain of one thing at least. God almighty has a sense of humor.
— Robert Ferrigno
The water was a full unknowable world.
— Lewis Robinson
I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.
— John Dufresne
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.
— Maggie Stiefvater
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love.
— Jess Walter
In the absence of grace, there is only right and wrong, black and white, and the endless unknowable gray of performance.
— Kara Tippetts
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
— Barbara Ehrenreich
We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.
— Rebecca Makkai
The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.
— Mason Cooley
There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
— Claire Wingfield
